Photodex was a software company specializing in the

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market. They are primarily known for the ProShow product line, which is

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. Photodex released one of the first consumer level slideshow programs in 1991 with a program named GDS or Graphic Display System. In the mid-1990s they focused on the photo management software product CompuPic, which also included slideshow capability. In 2002 they released the first version of ProShow, which focused primarily on slideshow creation. Announced in January of 2020 the company was shutting down it servers as of January 31, 2020.

Products

Photodex's current products are the ProShow product line. ProShow consists of ProShow Gold, ProShow Producer, and ProShow Web.

ProShow Gold

ProShow Gold is a consumer-level tool for creating slideshows from photos, video clips, and music. Built-in features allow users to customize slideshows with transitions, slide styles, and motion effects in the style of the

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. The software also has built-in CD,

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and

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burning capabilities and outputs to other formats including

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video,

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video,

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, and

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. In 2006, ''

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named ProShow Gold “the best program for mixing pictures and video clips.”

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named ProShow Gold the Editors' Choice for creating slideshows.

ProShow Producer

ProShow Producer is professional-grade slideshow software for creating photo and video slideshows. Features including keyframing, masking and adjustment effects can be used for further customization. The software has built-in CD,

and

burning capabilities. It also supports output to an Executable file (.exe) for playing on most computers (excluding Apple) as well as to other formats including

video, HTML5 video,

video,

and

. Beginners can use the built-in Wizard to create a slideshow even without prior experience with the application. After supplying the Wizard with the slideshow material (images, videos and/or audio files) ProShow Producer will create the slideshow automatically. After that, users can further customize their project and easily share it on popular sites such as YouTube and Facebook. On Dec. 5th 2013, FileCluster.com reviewed ProShow Producer and rated it with 5 stars.

ProShow Web

ProShow Web automatically creates video slideshows online from a user’s photos, video clips and music. Finished shows can be shared online through social networking sites including

and

or downloaded to a user’s computer.ProShow Web Infopage
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